Sep 6, 2013

Ayush docs to get allopathy training in RGUHS, Karnataka

Bengaluru: Following
the orders from the Planning Commission, the State Health and Family
Welfare Department has recommended Rajiv Gandhi University of Health
Sciences (RGUHS) to start an 18-month course in modern (emergency)
medicine for Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH)
practitioners to practice allopathy.
The initiative is
being taken up to upgrade and improve the primary health care system in
the State. The recommendation has been sent to the RGUHS authorities,
who will plan the training procedure and check its feasibility, said
Madan Gopal, Principal Secretary, Karnataka Health and Family Welfare
Department.Meanwhile, apart
from RGUHS, the State Health and Family Welfare Department is also
looking at roping in more private medical universities for this course.
“We
have requested other private medical universities too for the same
18-month course in modern (emergency) medicine. They will have to check
the feasibility and get back to us,” said Gopal.If this course takes off then it will help in ensuring that people, especially in the rural areas, get timely medical treatment.Following
the shortage of doctors and specialists in the State Health and Family
Welfare Department, people residing in rural areas do not have access to
proper healthcare facility. Hence if AYUSH practitioners are legally
allowed to take up integrated practice, then it will help improve the
primary health care system in the State, Gopal said.
The
Planning Commission in its report has also stated that AYUSH course
curricula have about 30 percent modern medicine components and that the
regulatory provision are existing in some States for integrated practice
by AYUSH doctors.However, it
can also be cited that until 1997 Bangalore University was running an
integrated course in allopathy, ayurveda and unani, but it did not call
for admission in the particular course after 1997. Later, in 2012, there
was a huge ruckus in the State when the State Health and Family Welfare
Department had decided on to permit AYUSH practitioners to prescribe
allopathy medicines during emergency.Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130906/news-current-affairs/article/ayush-docs-get-allopathy-training